It's better to fight someone more experienced than you than to fight someone equally or less experienced. You'll certainly learn something.

"Astronomy offers an aesthetic indulgence not duplicated in any other field. This is not an academic or hypothetical attraction and should require no apologies, for the beauty to be found in the skies has been universally appreciated for unrecorded centuries."

Its propably not going to be very smart or terribly interesting for anyone in here but do it.

NO man ever has managed to progress without taking risks in their life.No progress would have ever be made if people didnt see up in the sky and say "Thats a damn fine moon we have our selfs here, why dont we try to reach it"

“Offending people is healthy. Every time you say something that’s offensive to another person, you just force them to think.”
— Louis C.K.

Dominance war gives you something to hold yourself against. You look at the winners from previous years and you think you have to do something as good as that to win. You end up pushing yourself further to get to that level that you wouldn't have done if you were competing with someone of your own experience level, as CAW said.